Finding novels and all kinds of fiction as e-book (mobi, epub etc.) is relatively easy. Most people use their Kindle just for that. Unfortunately many non-fiction books and the vast majority of scientific articles are available only as a scanned pdf file, which is simply unreadable on the small 6" screen. If the pdf contains plain searchable text with no tables, diagrams, images or weird formatting you can convert it through Amazon Send to Kindle service. For more complicated pdf (or even djvu) you have to do a extra step:
There is one just AMAZING tool named K2pdfopt which solves all your Kindle pdf problems and makes reading PDF on Kindle possible. Just download and convert with the default options working flawlessly 90% of the time. The resulting pdf file can be sent to the Kindle via usb to the documents folder or delivered wirelessly through Send to Kindle. The drawback is that you can't do text search in the resulting pdf, but even that is fixable if you check the K2pdfopt options and OCR details or have access to a commercial software like Abbyy PDF Transformer.
I have't found any pdf K2pdfopt is unable to deal with, even some awfully tilted scans were quite readable. Still you may consider BRISS, a much simpler tool which lets you crop the white space around the text in a pdf file, thus making the text bigger and more easily readable on Kindle screen, while preserving the ability to search inside the text.
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